File system issues

[Dominic Fandrey]

Hello,

On 27/10/2014 15:07, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:22:48 +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>  > On 26/10/2014 18:37, Ian Smith wrote:
>  > > On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 09:27:15 +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>  > >  > On 26/10/2014 07:36, Ian Smith wrote:
>  > > 
>  > >  > > But then, the general expectation that new users will want a linux-style 
>  > >  > > single / directory - sure, fine for VM use - cruels the potential to use 
>  > >  > > dump and restore anyway.  It's a bit sad that this is still outstanding.
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > You can use dump from anywhere in the file system by way of nullfs
>  > >  > mounts.
>  > > 
>  > > Thanks Dominic, I wasn't aware of that.  Not that it makes up for not 
>  > > being able to not newfs filesystems you want to keep, and in fstab, but 
>  > > it's definitely worth exploring as a workaround.
>  > 
>  > I have to withdraw my statement. I thought I had done it before, but I
>  > cannot get it to work. I suppose that leaves us with tar.
> 
> I spent some time exploring trying to dump a nullfs-mounted (copy of) 
> /etc last night, to no avail.  I finally managed to make a snapshot of 
> that with mksnap_ffs, mounted it as an md, but it turned out to be just 
> a snapshot of / and not dumpable anyway.

I'm sorry for the false hope. :(
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